Diagnostic d’un système d’informations de gestion de l’eau à usage agricole dans le sous-bassin versant de la Haute-Comoé, Burkina Faso.

Irrigated agriculture, economic engine of the lower watershed of Upper Comoé, is dealing with a lot of challenges due to, among other reasons, the poor management of surface water resources, which are becoming more and more rare. The insufficient communication between users, have sometimes led to perceptible conflicts. Given this fact and facing with a national inoperative mechanism, “Integrated Water Resources Management” (IWRM) stakeholders have implemented a system for producing and sharing information. A qualitative survey conducted during dry campaigns 2016 and 2017, allowed us to describe the system, to enumerate its strengths and weaknesses, and make proposals. It has emerged from the analysis, that water release program from the three main reservoirs of the sub-basin, is at the center of the system and its main strength, lies in the process of producing information. The dissemination of information, however, remains weak and should be improved by mass communication tools.